Light In Darkness

Children of the Dolphins [18+]

“I never did stand a chance, did I?” he asked, looking at me with those violet eyes of his as if I was the villain in our story. I wasn’t. I was doing the logical thing in my situation…

Keeping them both; for a short time, of course. Kastik for the money and social standing and him… because my heart raced every time he looked at me. Because my body tingled with his touch. No, I was keeping him because I couldn’t see my life without him.

But how could I make him see the truth?

“I married Kastik only in papers. I mean nothing to him and he means nothing to me. You on the other hand…” I paused to gently stroke his cheek. The black skin that marked him as a nokteres was the reason my mother didn’t want us together. “There’s nothing over this frozen planet that will stop me from meeting you away from mom’s eyes.”

“So I’m going to be your lover,” Oderius stated, giving me such a cold stare I felt frigid fingers squeeze my heart.

Why was he acting in such way? Dolphares weren’t possessive with their bed partners so why was he behaving like our tree-loving enemies?

“Being my lover isn’t a bad thing. What…?”

“I want you for me and only me.” He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “Don’t you see?” Another pause that felt like an eternity and then his plump lips moved again. “I love you, Bleis.  Can’t stand seeing you with another male.”

I froze. He was putting our relationship in jeopardy for some chemical induced feelings that his body created?

“You have been spying at the Samerkteus for so long their ideologies are rubbing off on you,” I said, fisting my hands and turning away from him. “I’ll talk with the Triumvirate to give you some urgent vacations.”

“I confess my feelings and you walk away from me?”

My blood rushed through my veins like molten lava and I bit my tongue to keep the insults inside my mouth before turning to face him. “Love isn’t real; it’s only an illusion created when our brain orders the production of Dopamine! Even a child knows this for a fact.” I took a deep breath and slowly released it. “We’ll continue our little chat when you start talking like a sane Dolphare.” Angry and fighting against the mist forming in my eyes, I turned around and made my way to the door.

“You want me to talk like ours? Fine! That way you won’t be able to deny my feelings.”

My hand stopped short of reaching the door’s control pad but I refused to face him, not when my tears were about to spill down my pale cheeks.

“You’re like the ocean to me, beautiful and dangerous but always inviting me to dive beneath your waves.” His voice began hard and biting but with each word that rolled over his tongue it slowly turned into honey. “I need you by my side like I need air to breathe. My body aches for you when we are apart and my heartbeats quicken just with the prospect of seeing you.”

Out of the blue his hands grabbed the sides of my waist causing me to yelp. How in the name of science had he reached me without my notice?

“You’re the only one that can melt my cold heart, Oderius, but you know no one can refuse an order from their family’s matriarch… and she didn’t give me a choice.” I blinked away the remaining mist from my eyes and faced him using my hands to keep his around my waist.

Snow white over pitch black. A nevaris and a nokteres. Both of our races were children of the dolphins and yet society treated us differently because of our skin color.